I'm a political theorist. My primary research interests are democratic deliberation, communication, decision making, citizenship, and social media. I completed a PhD in political science at the University of British Columbia in the spring of 2017. These days, I'm a postdoctoral fellow at Simon Fraser University in the Scholarly Communications Laboratory, where I'm working on a project focused on how knowledge circulates on the internet and what that means for citizen participation in contemporary democracies.

I'm also working on a SSHRC-funded project at UBC led by Chris Tenove and Mark Warren. We are researching digital threats to democracy, including microtargeting, Big Data, fake news, bots, and hacking. We'd like to know what the nature of these threats is, which democratic goods they threaten, and what we might do in response.

Selected Conference Presentations:

- “Deliberation and Democracy,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 2016.

- “What to make of the epistemic defense of deliberative democracy?,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association; Ottawa, Ontario. 2015.

- “Can we deliberate? The challenge of motivated reasoning to autonomous and rational deliberation,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association; Las Vegas, Nevada. 2015.

- “Deliberative citizenship and autonomy,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Political Science Association; Chicago, Illinois. 2014.